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  • noun Common misspelling of amateur.
  • noun Common misspelling of armature.

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Examples

  • A quick Googling of "amature" reveals that it has been used nearly a million times, and the number is sure to increase as porn sites featuring "amature beastiality" and "free amature masterbation video" become ever more popular.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • Today, the poor devils have mostly the internet, which is often the domain of morons and their 'amature' models.

    Nit-pickers of the world unite Michael Allen 2004

  • Today, the poor devils have mostly the internet, which is often the domain of morons and their 'amature' models.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • I Hope we get more detailed lunar maps than ever before I gotta tell I'm an amature astrophotographer and I have taken some very nice pics of the moon and those LCROSS fly by pics got me excited and disappointed at the same time.

    LRO Arrives at the Moon - NASA Watch 2009

  • November 18th, 2009 6: 55 pm ET this matter was handled very poorly. sebelius 'equivocation only mildly helps ease the confusion. what an amature mistake.

    Sebelius: New guidelines are 'not coverage decisions' 2009

  • Also anyone out there that thinks the US soldier captured by the Taliban is not being severely mistreated (tortured) and will be killed even if we stop the bombing in southern Afganistan is a rank amature/armchair warrior who could not fight their way out of a roll of wet toilet paper.

    Gates open to more U.S. troops in Afghanistan 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from huntnow wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago these are all great bucks but i think there might be some amature B&C scoring going on.

    Field & Stream's 50 Best Reader Bucks of 2009 2010

  • He is an amature drummer who had been taking music lessons for almost two years, and wants a musician costume of some kind to wear.

    Halloween Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from huntnow wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago these are all great bucks but i think there might be some amature B&C scoring going on.

    Field & Stream's 50 Best Reader Bucks of 2009 2010

  • I think you should just fold up shop and let some other party try, amature hour is over

    Steele: Obama's speech 'must be the beginning, not the end' 2009

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